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Akita Magouta

秋田馬子唄

[Genre]Min'yo
[School]Min'yo

History (Takahashi Yujiro):

"Akita Horse-dealer's Song". In the north until recently, men led strings of horses to or from distant horse-markets travelling through the night. As with "Nambu Ushoioi Uta", a song could ease the stress on both man and beast. At the markets, the horsemen exchanged songs like these, eventually creating local and individual variants.

Keep moving, ponies, hurry along, Brownie: the sun is setting in the western mountains.
It's lonely being a horseman, all alone on the road at night, with nothing but the sound of the bridle behind you.

Akita Magouta appears on the following albums

Album Artist

Folk Songs with Shakuhachi Shakuhachi : Kamiyama Tensui I
Play ButtonMin'yo - Folk Song from Japan - Takahashi Yujiro and friends Shakuhachi : Takahashi Yujiro
"Akita Horse-dealer's Song". In the north until recently, men led strings of horses to or from distant horse-markets travelling through the night. As with "Nambu Ushoioi Uta", a song could ease the stress on both man and beast. At the markets, the horsemen exchanged songs like these, eventually creating local and individual variants.

Keep moving, ponies, hurry along, Brownie: the sun is setting in the western mountains.
It's lonely being a horseman, all alone on the road at night, with nothing but the sound of the bridle behind you.

Copyright 1999 - Dr David W. Hughes
e-mail dh6@soas.ac.uk
Play ButtonShakuhachi Min'yo - 1991

Shakuhachi Min'yo - Furusato no Uta - Vol 5 Shakuhachi : Yashita Isamu
Play ButtonShakuhachi Minyo Shakuhachi : Yoneya Iwao

Shakuhachi Minyo no Shirabe Shakuhachi : Fujimaru Teizō

Shakuhachi no sekai - 2 Shakuhachi : Yoneya Iwao

Shakuhachi no Shirabe (vol. 2) Shakuhachi : Hayashi Yūshō
Shakuhachi : Yamazaki Ryō

Special Selection of Folk Songs for the Shakuhachi - 1 Shakuhachi : Yashita Isamu

Yagishita - 1 Shakuhachi : Kamiyama Tensui I